HUNTING IN THE RIFT VALLEY 



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its grey-rock environment as to be practically invisible 

 at any considerable distance. The creature, moreover, 

 is the very incarnation of watchful alertness : the 











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grey phantoms of the uocks 

 (chanler's eeedbucks). 



immense ears and full, prominent eyes set high on an 

 elevated forehead bespeak such qualities. Graceful in 

 the extreme and most interesting to watch were these 

 little rock- skippers as they sprang from crag to crag or 

 filed up precipitous ledges, whistling, and flirting their 



